HOW TO READ AND APPRECIATE POETRY
The Poet Laureate of Appalachia Poetry! Don’t rush thru it! Read with your heart, not your mind. Let you mind straggle behind that first...
"I blog about poems, gardening, hiking, life, cycling and just fun stuff. Look for a weekly post from me."
Tom
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tenbrunsel2
- Sep 20
- 3 min
FAMILY JAM
Mirth, conversation, folly, laughter, loudness, music, humor, and song filled the living room air, when it was “family jam” night with...
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tenbrunsel2
- Sep 13
- 1 min
SHADOW
Is it me Or not me? It’s plain to see It mimics me. Then sometimes It’s never there Am I still here? A thought I cannot bear The other...
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tenbrunsel2
- Aug 23
- 1 min
TWO TRACK
Something draws me down this two track. It’s clearly a road least traveled. Who? What? Why? What’s there? I can’t resist. I must go. It...
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tenbrunsel2
- Aug 16
- 9 min
BOOM! EDDIE WOTIER
“Outta Site” "BOOM!" It was a shocker! Damn loudest, total body thunderous roaring sensation I had ever experienced in a grandstand! It...
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tenbrunsel2
- Aug 11
- 2 min
TWO GENTLEMEN (2)
Poem re-dedicated to my life-long friend, George Aloysius Geist (3/27/1937 - 8/10/2022) RIP Two Gentlemen, Met on Max Patch, Just a tad,...
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tenbrunsel2
- Aug 10
- 3 min
RED BUFFALO TRAIL
Come gather ‘round me friends and I’ll tell you of the men who rode the trail many years ago. Adventure was their life and Freedom was...
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tenbrunsel2
- Aug 6
- 1 min
MY BEACH SPRITE❤️
There she was, And there she wasn’t, There he was then wasn’t, Poof! Zip! Zap! Where? Here and there, Shazam!!! And there they were,...
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tenbrunsel2
- Aug 4
- 2 min
THE GLEANERS
And the Lord spoke, “When you reap the harvest of your land, do not reap to the very edges of your field or gather the gleanings of your...
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tenbrunsel2
- Jul 28
- 1 min
SNIPER
I have a friend A cyclops You don’t see him But he sees you, Eliminating evil faces. If I had a choice, I’d clone him, Who needs grunts...
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tenbrunsel2
- Jul 21
- 3 min
HOW TO RIDE A BICYCLE
Tom’s Tips on Bike Riding: I’m talking about a bicycle not a Harley, although much same applies to both. A bicycle has two wheels. The...
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tenbrunsel2
- Jul 15
- 2 min
A MID-SUMMER’S GARDEN DREAM
Veggies! Veggies! Git ‘em when they’re ripe. Plant ‘em. Pick ‘em. Slice ‘em up. Eat ‘em up. Cooked, raw, roasted, Or grab a bunch and...
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tenbrunsel2
- Jul 4
- 1 min
A PERFECT PARCHMENT
In order to form a more perfect union, we need but return to the days of yor and sit like church mice in the corner of the room and hear...
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tenbrunsel2
- Jun 25
- 2 min
TRAIPSING
I go on traipsing, Traipsing along, As if nothing happened, ‘As if nothing’s wrong, Oblivious, That things could, Change so drastically,...
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tenbrunsel2
- Jun 21
- 1 min
PRINCESS FALLS
There once was a sad waterfall, Oh my, so dry, Which required a Princess, To Climb up upon its rocks, And declare, Aloud, That it flow,...
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tenbrunsel2
- Jun 17
- 1 min
THE APPALACHIAN TRAIL
🎶As I went walking🎶That ribbon of highway🎶I saw above me an endless skyway🎶 Today I walked the entire length of the Appalachian Trail...
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tenbrunsel2
- Jun 3
- 2 min
WHO AM I?
It’s about time you got to know me especially on my birthday. I’ve always said you get to know me and my journey best through my poems...
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tenbrunsel2
- May 24
- 7 min
A CHANCE MEETING WITH HAMPTON
I have found it is a small world filled with God-intended serendipity, chance meetings, somehow meant to be. Coincidences? Are there...
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tenbrunsel2
- May 10
- 1 min
ROCKING
I sit on my porch in the mountains, Rocking; Smelling the fresh breeze as it rustles, All but silently, Air unseen, My chores dun. You’ll...
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tenbrunsel2
- May 6
- 1 min
IRIS
Her name is Iris, a delicate delectable beauty. Unannounced, she shows up at our place annually, by nature’s spectacular clockwork,...
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